Emma Courtland

Picture your father's beer, his sharpener of wits and marinader of meats. His remedy for kidney stones and explanation for those brown patches of grass that pop up on the front lawn. His foamy elixir, which emboldened him to woo and win your mother, and through its residual charms, conceive......

Silver trembling fetus ornaments and posters screen-printed with human blood--the colorful antics of The Flaming Lips' promotions are well documented. In January, Lips singer Wayne Coyne announced the band was planning to release small batches of songs in unorthodox ways over the course of the year, and last week Coyne......

Upon hearing their band name, the average Jane might wonder if San Francisco's The Sandwitches weren't more than just casually interested in food. That their discography includes albums titled How to Make Ambient Sad Cake and Mrs. Jones' Cookies might reasonably offer her a certain degree of confirmation. And, when......

In a two-part livestreaming session with Eater National yesterday, Anthony Bourdain announced that he will be attending San Diego Comic-Con in July to promote his forthcoming graphic novel, Get Jiro! Though the author revealed details of the project last October at New York Comic-Con, describing it as "an ultra-violent slaughter-fest......

In the future, food will be served in tablet form. We've learned this from comic books and the better researched sci-fi films -- once the Earth has been depleted of its natural resources, humans will derive nutrients from synthetic, capsuled sources, and taste will become irrelevant. Luckily, the future is......

Forever dreaming of a white Christmas that will never come -- unless we head to the Sierras, at the very least -- we Southern Californians do Christmas a bit differently than the rest of the country. Were we to go caroling, for example, we might consider wearing sandals, or Ugg......

Attention nerds who collect things and eBay store owners who sell to nerds who collect things: Jones Soda Co. has partnered with Dark Horse Comics for the release of six limited edition Emily the Strange soda labels. For the uninitiated: Emily the Strange is a quasi-punk goth type cartoon/alternative fashion......

"Naresh's is like an extension of my living room," says Naresh Mehra, owner of the eponymous new restaurant-wine bar in Santa Monica. Mehra speaks figuratively, of course. Though, figuratively speaking, all of Main Street like an extension of his home. Or better, it's like an extension of his home which......

In restaurant musical chairs, as in life and in the CBS show Survivor, there are those who seem to know how to play the game inherently. Such is the case with Frida's Tacos, which opened last week on Melrose, in the spot recently occupied by lucha libre-themed eatery, Santito's Mexican......

For those at this year's F Yeah Fest, an annual concert held last Saturday in Los Angeles State Historic Park, time existed only in musical signatures, dictating the tempo of their collective movements, willing them to dance or sing or move between stages, or it seemed to, until they got......